Russian oligarchs’ London top properties are frozen.
There is a heavy coating of dust on the windows of Jardine House in the eastern parts of London City, and it is interrupted with crude graffiti. A note scribbled on some tape and stuck to the door announces that security is now conducting patrols of the unoccupied building. Owned by the Libyan Investment Authority, this once-bustling office building is now decaying, serving as a warning to affluent Russians. Since hundreds of Vladimir Putin’s associates have frozen their assets in Britain, their prime London property may suffer the same fate. Since 2011, when Britain sanctioned Moammar Qaddafi’s dictatorship, Jardine House